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Champion Harvester and Binder

Date: 1882
Description: Advertising handbill for the Champion harvester and binder. Includes the text: "the Champion light binder, is the only simple, light, durable, efficient wo...
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The Slide

Date: 1880
Description: Engraving for "Peterson's Magazine" of women in maids' uniforms sliding down an icy path in the snow.
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Charles W. Short, Botanist

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Description: Engraved portrait of Charles W. Short (1794-1863), Kentucky botanist. Worked at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, 1825-38. The plant genus ...
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August Kroll Letterhead

Date: 1888
Description: Letterhead of August Kroll of Leopolis, Wisconsin, dealer in hardware, stoves, and tinware, with an image of the interior of a store and customers being he...
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Increase Lapham

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Description: Engraved quarter-length portrait of Increase Lapham.
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Increase Lapham

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Description: Oval head and shoulders vignetted portrait of Increase A. Lapham.
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Obed Hussey's Reaper of 1833

Date: 1894
Description: Illustration of Obed Hussey's reaper of 1833 drawn by horses in a field.
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Bell's Reaper of 1826

Date: 1894
Description: Illustration of a man and horses with Bell's reaper of 1826.
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The New Cabin

Date: 1937
Description: Linoleum cut engraved view of men building a log cabin. One man carries a log in the background near a lake or river, while another man nails a log held in...
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Cant Hook Man

Date: 04 1937
Description: Linoleum cut print of a man using a cant hook to move logs. Other lumberjacks work in the background.
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Engraving "Men of Progress, American Inventors"

Date: 05 22 1935
Description: Engraving of "Men of Progress, American Inventors."
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Case's Threshing Machine

Date: 1850
Description: Engraving of a man in a coat and hat feeding stalks into a thresher. The thresher is run by two horses on a treadmill at right. The grain is collected from...
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Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin as found in American Farmer, vol. 9.
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John Stevens Cabot Abbott

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Description: Lithographic portrait of John S. C. Abbott, an American historian, and pastor. He was the author of The Mother at Home, The History of the Civil ...
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Louis Agassiz

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Description: Engraved profile portrait of Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, a biologist and geologist known for his studies of Earth's natural history.
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Louis Agassiz

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Description: Engraved head and shoulders portrait of Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, a biologist and geologist known for his studies of Earth's natural history.
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Louis Agassiz

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Description: Engraved waist-up portrait of Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, a biologist and geologist known for his studies of Earth's natural history.

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